2022-10-26
I've been on this platform since 2007. When I low leveled my Twitter in 2017, it wasn't random. What I sensed then told me the risk of least charitable interpretations as onramps to being made famous for outrage lulz was on a steep incline. So, now I #delete #ephemeral tweets. https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
Internal research: Twitter has been losing “heavy tweeters”, who tweet three to four times a week, since the pandemic began, masked by an overall growth in DAUs
“Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.
2021-12-29
This is excellent news. US citizens will enjoy the fruits of this ruling concurrent with the growing ubiquity of democratized access to signal processing via Software Defined Radios (SDRs) and edge computing solutions.🤖📻☁ ️📡📶 https://twitter.com/...
Fierce Wireless
US appeals court rules in favor of the FCC's decision to designate a large swath of the 6 GHz band to unlicensed users, after AT&T challenged the FCC
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …
2021-12-20
Flashback: In 2011, Thailand monsoon and rainfall flooding took lives, impacted lives, disrupted global manufacturing supply chains, and led to a year of hard disk drive shortages. Now: Pandemic. Soon: A “cheap as chips” future.📉 Images via @BlocksandFiles @Wikibon @backblaze https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
AnandTech
Report: chipmakers are on track to spend $152B on new fabs and production equipment in 2021, up 34% YoY, which is the strongest YoY growth since 2017
Anton Shilov / AnandTech : Source: IC Insights .
2021-12-17
If so, Oracle M&A strategy playbook (PTI, Relsys, Phase Forward, goBalto) may extend to other essential companies as per patterns a decade ago in the mobile and telecom market (MetaSolv, Acme Packet, Tekelec). https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Oracle is in talks to acquire electronic medical records company Cerner, in a deal that could be worth ~$30B, which would make it Oracle's biggest yet
An agreement, which could potentially be worth $30 billion, would rank as biggest ever for software giant
2021-11-11
Signing up +12 years ago for my consulting company was fun onboarding. Getting personally hand crafted emails from @dbarrett aka robo0, robo1, robo2, etc...🤣 It seemed like anything was possible back then with @freshbooks @expensify and desire to make things happen for clients. https://twitter.com/...
MarketWatch
Expensify, which offers an expense management app for personal and business use, raises $70.2M in its IPO, with shares closing up 52.07% on its trading debut
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
2021-11-03
Web1: No banner ads. Web2: Sell banner ads. Web3: Sell yourself as banner ads. Perhaps Zoom will leverage their video filter ML/AI/AR by launching on persona advertising placement to the highest bidding brands. “Bob. You're serving @gucci looks, but you're on mute.” https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Zoom says it is testing ads on its free Basic tier; the ads appear on the browser page shown to users at the end of a call
Wrapping my head around @Microsoft Loop.🤯 I'm genuinely curious if there are former @figmadesign @NotionHQ @Pitch @SlideRocket (circa 2010 @sxsw) folks behind the scenes.🧐 From a charitable perspective, it's a love letter to what's possible when everything gets integrated.🤔 https://twitter.com/...
VentureBeat
Microsoft announces Loop, an app that combines a “flexible canvas” with collaborative components that sync across Microsoft 365 services
How we're empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft Loop is a new Office app for the hybrid work era Liam Tung / ZDNet : This new PowerP...
2021-11-01
+15 years: Hyperscale public cloud service providers invest to enable globally diverse infrastructure to support well-architected frameworks.💰☁️ +15 months: GAIA-X Policy Rules and Architecture of Standards support geopolitical data sovereignty and balkanization frameworks.⚖️🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Politico
Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce the EU's cloud dependency on US tech giants, is clogged by infighting and bloated bureaucracy
2021-09-17
This is one of those trifecta stories that could become a superfecta story headlines across @Techmeme @WeSmirch @mediagazer and @memeorandum — and an indication that TikTok has crossed the brand ubiquity chasm to reach Facebook level familiarity in pop references to a platform. https://twitter.com/...
Politico
DHS: American extremists used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots to recruit new members and share “tactical guidance” for terrorist and criminal activity
and an indication that TikTok has crossed the brand ubiquity chasm to reach Facebook level familiarity in pop references to a platform. https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @car...
2021-08-17
Congrats to @pud and the @DistroKid team. One upon a time in the 2008-ish days of early music sharing and syndication I used @TuneCore to distribute one @Qthrul track... but if I ever create a full @Qthrul album, I want to use @DistroKid. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
DistroKid, which has helped 2M+ musicians upload music to streaming services, says it is valued at $1.3B after a recent raise from Insight Venture Partners
2021-08-16
“So the notion that you can just slap on a headset and shoot some photons into your eyes and somehow that takes the place of that whole-body experience that you have in the world—it's false.” — @johnhanke https://twitter.com/...
Fast Company
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare
2021-08-15
“So the notion that you can just slap on a headset and shoot some photons into your eyes and somehow that takes the place of that whole-body experience that you have in the world—it's false.” — @johnhanke https://twitter.com/...
Fast Company
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about Niantic's vision for the metaverse and how the metaverse could become a dystopian nightmare
The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.
2021-08-14
Tip of the hat to those that opine on the timelines for eventual displacement (or at least partnering via augmentation) of the C Suite by sufficiently advanced AI. https://twitter.com/...
VICE
Nvidia says part of its April keynote was led by a virtual replica of CEO Jensen Huang, created by scanning Huang and then training an AI to mimic his gestures
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE :
2021-08-13
Tip of the hat to those that opine on the timelines for eventual displacement (or at least partnering via augmentation) of the C Suite by sufficiently advanced AI. https://twitter.com/...
VICE
Nvidia says part of its April keynote was led by a virtual replica of CEO Jensen Huang, created by scanning Huang and then training an AI to mimic his gestures
Nvidia pulled off a stunt to promote and showcase its latest technology by digitizing its CEO Jensen Huang in a conference keynote.
2021-08-10
The author appears to suggest that privacy focused Apple should use the solutions employed by [ checks notes ] Facebook and Google. 🧐🤔😳 https://twitter.com/...
Stratechery
Apple's plan to find CSAM should have centered around scanning images on iCloud servers, not on users' devices, where there is a greater expectation of privacy
including a number of non-obvious but critical ones. It's also why hypos as a threat assessment tool will only get you so far. https://twitter.com/... Greg Howell / @g_howell : @ma...
2021-08-04
Looking back to 2016, it's important to understand that from EMC Federation to the Dell combination, value was strategically, purposefully, and continuously created. Complex nested concurrent M&A value creation processes are long games of chess with gambits, twists, and turns.♟ https://twitter.com/...
Forbes
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others
2021-07-08
Intel has invested ~$20B in New Mexico since 1980 which includes ~$3.5B in upgrades... this year. TSMC will invest ~$12B in Arizona... this year. GlobalFoundries will invest ~$2.5B in New York and Vermont... this year. @USGov? $52B? That's pretty... wait for it... FABulous.🤓 https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Inside a GlobalFoundries chipmaking plant in upstate NY, filled with $10B worth of machinery, detailing the three-month, 700-step chip manufacturing process
and expensive — pieces of equipment in the factory are the lithography machines that print the intricate designs on the wafers. The Malta plant has 20 of those; each costs roughly ...
Back in 2015, we might have debated how spatial and temporal data markets could evolve with drone captured data companies, satellite captured data companies, and emerging ML/AI companies. Now it's likely the market will reward accretive combinations via M&A for all of the above. https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Planet Labs, which provides satellite imagery data analytics to 600+ customers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a post-deal equity value of $2.8B
Michael Sheetz / CNBC : Tweets: @thesheetztweetz , @jaycuthrell , @thesheetztweetz , and @timoreilly Tweets: Michael Sheetz / @thesheetztweetz : dMY CEO @NiccoloDeMasi on @SquawkS...
2021-06-30
The one weird trick Hollywood insiders use that makes investment pros jealous https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says it had $767M in revenue last year, $4.4M in net income, and funnels ads to 7,000+ websites like CNN
Outbrain, one of the top purveyors of clickbait ads, filed on Tuesday to raise at least $100 million through an initial public offering …
For sale or “on sale with deepening discounts”?📉 Will similar online community users corpora see significant discounts due to aging?⌛️ Will the recent certiorari outcomes re: LinkedIn v. hiQ that may pave the way for cheaper and newer third party scraping endeavors?🤔 https://twitter.com/...
PrivacySharks
Data on 700M LinkedIn users for sale on a forum, with info like names, addresses, inferred salary; LinkedIn says it seems some of the data is from other sources
Madeleine Hodson / PrivacySharks :